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Word and Excel are using VBA. There's VB, VBScript, VB.Net and VBA for MS Office users. VB.Net has been called simply VB more recently. It can all get very confusing. What they have in common is similar language structure. VBScript - VBS is interpreted code (script). It runs via some kind of host. That can be Internet Explorer (for webpage scripting), the Windows Script Host (for scripting